Well, I did get to Almaty with the best of intentions, but instead of helping you out I decided to catch a cold and be miserable instead. I’ll offer only that Almaty’s indeed a big city, but reasonably cheap to get around if you use the “Yandex” taxi app—otherwise you’re at the mercy of kindly passers by, who are many, and/or rapacious taxi drivers, who are almost equally numerous. Procuring a local SIM and linking it to Yandex will save a lot of trouble. Pre-enabling Russian/English offline translations via Google Translate will also be key to any sort of functionality.
Sorry I wasn’t able to help out, but hoping you’ll turn up the information you need
Mark
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